I'm doing a nostalgia project on mid-90s pop music and want input

Black Crowes? Anyone? I’m listening to them right now, actually. “Twice as Hard”, “Jealous Again”, “Hard to Handle” and “She Talks to Angels”. These really got airplay after the MTV Unplugged performance. And there would be a bunch of Unplugged songs, I should think, if only I could think of any more…

And my one most favoritest dance tune, Deee-Lite’s “Groove is in the Heart”

Yeah Cause & Effect was a DM soundalike band that had a couple of minor hits during the early to mid 90’s. The songs I remember off-hand are “Another Minute”, “You Think You Know Her”, and “It’s Over Now”. I think the song you’re thinking of is “It’s Over Now” - the sample on Amazon (here) has a siren sound in it.

I liked their singles, but never felt they could really pull a full album. From what I understand, their lead singer died of an asthma attack right before a show touring on their first album and had to be replaced after that.

Thanks interface2x, that was it!

“We can live beside the ocean, father of mine, tell me where did you go …”

Pretty much true of all their popular songs, but that’s can be said of several bands. Though I don’t much like those songs - my favorite one of theirs is “So Much for the Afterglow”.
Another one from the mid-to-late-90’s ska revival :
Reel Big Fish - (“Sell Out”, “Everything Sucks”)

The 90s were when I was in high school and college. Let’s see what I have on my hard drive that hasn’t been mentioned yet…

3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
7 Mary 3 - Cumbersome; Water’s Edge
Adina Howard - Freak Like Me
Agents Of Good Roots - Smiling Up The Frown
Athenaeum - What I Didn’t Know
Backstreet Boys - Everybody shut up
Barenaked Ladies - Alternative Girlfriend; Old Apartment; Shoe Box
Belly - Gepetto; Feed The Tree
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Broken Hearted Savior
Black Lab - Time Ago;
Blessid Union Of Souls - Could’ve Been With You; Home
Bush - Little Things; Everything Zen; Glycerine; Come Down; Mouth; Swallowed
Butthole Surfers -
Candlebox - Cover Me; Far Behind
Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
Cool For August - Hey You not a cover,ftr
Cornershop - Brim Full of Asha
Coward - I Don’t Care
Cowboy Junkies - Miles From Our Home
Cowboy Mouth - Jenny Says; Whatcha Gonna Do?
Creed - My Own Prison; One
Dada - Bob The Drummer; California Gold
Days Of The New - Touch, Peel And Stand
Deadeye Dick - New Age Girl
Depeche Mode - I Feel You; Walking In My Shoes; Barrel Of A Gun; It’s No Good
Eels - Novicane For The Soul
En Vogue - Don’t Let Go (love)
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Everlast - Ends; What It’s Like
Face to Face - I Won’t Lie Down; The Devil You Know
Failure - Stuck on You
Far - Job’s Eyes
Feeder - High
Folk Implosion - Natural One
Forest For The Trees - Dream
Fountains Of Wayne - Radiation Vibe

and here my attention span wans. I’ll post more later.